Covax: Canada defends taking vaccines from sharing scheme
Canada has defended its decision to draw on a supply of coronavirus vaccines from a global inoculation-sharing initiative known as Covax.
Covax pools funds from wealthier countries to help buy vaccines for themselves and low-income nations.
The scheme has announced a plan to deliver more than 330 million vaccine doses in the first half of 2021.
Canada is the only member of the G7 group of rich countries listed as a Covax beneficiary at this stage.
Russian pro-Navalny detainees and relatives denounce jail conditions
Videos emerge from holding centre showing cells meant for eight filled with two or three times as many
The wife of a Russian website editor jailed for a retweet has denounced the conditions in which he is being held, as thousands of protesters remain detained in holding centres overwhelmed by a recent crackdown on supporters of Alexei Navalny.
Leaked videos from the Sakharovo holding centre for immigrants near Moscow, which has been turned into a jail owing to the more than 10,000 arrests in the last two weeks since protests began against Vladimir Putin.
“Look at this shit,” said one detainee, Maria Silantyeva, zooming in on an open toilet inside a cell where more than 20 young women were being held. “When I came in someone was doing her business.”
The ruining of Lebanon
Six months after the Beirut blast, Lebanon is stuggling with a triple headed crisis which has put the country on the verge of collapse, reports Bel Trew
aloed by the lights from their mobile phones, the medical staff at St George University Hospital picked through the dead to carry injured patients and colleagues on bed sheets through the ravaged remains of the 9-storey building.
Outside, a tidal wave of wounded coming out of the building crashed into the wave of wounded coming in from the surrounding neighbourhoods.
In the middle, dazed medics, still stained with blood, set up a makeshift triage centre in the car park to treat both.
Former Ugandan rebel commander Dominic Ongwen guilty of war crimes: ICC
The child soldier turned "Lord's Resistance Army" commander had been accused of crimes against humanity during a brutal campaign of terror in northern Uganda.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, convicted former Ugandan warlord Dominic Ongwen on Thursday of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In reading out detailed descriptions of atrocities committed by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) — which had been one of Africa's most brutal rebel groups — an ICC judge said that Ongwen had ordered the killings and abductions of civilians, including children.
Japan's new virus law: Fines for noncompliance and support for hard-hit firms
BY ERIC JOHNSTON
STAFF WRITER
Authorities will soon have a new weapon at their disposal in the fight against COVID-19: fines for those who flout guidelines.
The Diet on Wednesday passed two bills that allow authorities to levy financial punishments on individuals and businesses that violate the government's antivirus measures.
Once they go into force, it will be possible to levy financial penalties on businesses that refuse local government orders to shorten their hours of operation under a state of emergency and individuals who refuse to be hospitalized or tested for the novel coronavirus.
'It's Embarrassing': Marjorie Taylor Greene Tests the Limits of Some Voters
Rick Rojas
Billy Martin does not care much for politicians. But the retired teacher and coach liked what he heard from Marjorie Taylor Greene, who promised to arrive in Washington as a defiant force, intent on rattling the establishment.
For his community in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, which he believed had long been overlooked, Greene had a voice that was impossible to ignore.
But in recent weeks, it has also been impossible to ignore the torrent of troubling social media posts and videos in which Greene had endorsed violent behavior, including executing Democratic leaders, and spread an array of conspiracy theories, including that the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon and the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were hoaxes.
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